In December, Syndicat National des Professionnels de la Relocalisation et la Mobilité (SNPRM) in France elected a new Board in a rejuvenation of the organisation created in 1995 to bring together mobility experts in France and elsewhere.

Pickfords has won the ‘International Moving Company of the Year’ award at the Expatriate Management and Mobility Awards (EMMAs) 2018.

An All-Party Parliamentary Group for Road Freight and Logistics, chaired by the Rt Hon Sir Mike Penning MP, meets today (26 February) for the first time to address some of the big issues facing the industry including Brexit, air quality and the driver shortage.

Deputy Editor David Jordan looks at the UK’s proposals relating to the employment of foreign workers when the UK leaves the EU, deal or no deal.

EUROMOVERS will be holding its annual conference in Copenhagen, from 16-19 May, 2019.

This year’s British Association of Removers (BAR) conference will take place from 23-25 May in the historic English town of Stratford-Upon-Avon.

Swiss moving company Harsch has announced the acquisition of two local moving companies in the Vaud canton of Switzerland: CEVY and BOVY.

More than 400 Freight Transport Association (FTA) members and guests from all modes of the transport industry gathered at London’s Royal Lancaster Hotel on 13 December to celebrate the second annual FTA Logistics Awards.

Brexit warning to businesses with overseas workers to renew their passports.

The minimum amounts you and your staff pay into your automatic enrolment pension scheme will increase from 6 April, 2019.

The Senior Traffic Commissioner for Great Britain, Richard Turfitt, has reinforced the importance of continuous professional development for those responsible for managing haulage, bus and coach operations.

The UK Communities Secretary Rt Hon James Brokenshire MP has welcomed figures published in November showing over 222,000 new homes were delivered in 2017 to 2018.

Whilst pro-Brexit groups foresee a bright future for the UK as a global trading nation, chief executives and directors at ports and harbour authorities around the UK reveal that, with ten weeks to go, little or no planning has been done.

London-based class action law firm Edwin Coe LLP has filed a group action seeking damages for direct and indirect purchasers of trucks who were victims of fraudulent price fixing by major truck manufacturers over a 14-year period.

SilverDoor Apartments, has launched a new powerful online booking platform aimed specifically at the global mobility industry.

Pickfords Business Solutions and VINCI Facilities, a construction and facilities management expert, were awarded ‘Best Partnership in Relocation’ at the PFM Awards 2018 held at The Brewery, London on 7 November.

For the past twenty years HomeMaker, run by entrepreneur Katie Shapley, has been bringing order and calm to the often chaotic task of turning a newly moved-into house into a home.

On Monday, 27 November 2018, Richard Mason from Mason’s Moving in Wales took part in a delivery that was somewhat unusual, even for an experienced mover.

It seems it will be up to employers to establish whether or not emigrants from Europe are entitled to work in the UK after Britain leaves the European Union in March, even though there appears to be no easy way of checking their status.

The Road Haulage Association (RHA) challenges claims by the President of the Port of Calais, Jean-Marc Puissesseau, on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme on 9 January, 2019 that the Port of Calais is Brexit-ready and will not be carrying out any more vehicle checks, post-Brexit, than are already being carried out – apart from those for food, livestock and migrants. However, he did not explain the complete picture.